JamesR
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/07/01 11:02:55
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you guys are no fun..
huntsmans are good to have around, as with daddy long legs. both seem to keep other nasty spiders away.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/07/01 11:09:37
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Huntsman will give you a nip (ask me how I know!), just not poisonous
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/07/01 11:18:13
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its ok, I'm just gonna buy a hammer as soon as we land, Oh and one of them hats with the dropbear repellent corks[:x)]
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/07/01 12:41:16
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nah its safe here, you usually get a warning of some kind before anything nasty gets ya. Usually from the other bloke! lol
Bring your Ghia with your stuff too.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/07/01 17:20:16
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Originally posted by robertverhey
Huntsman will give you a nip (ask me how I know!), just not poisonous
oh i know too! the bite was a bit itchy for a while.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/07/01 21:01:35
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Our Kelpie used to eat huntsmen. We had a big huntsman in the house one time and were trying to keep the dog away from it but he just trotted up to the spider and went Chomp. He loved them.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/09 08:25:44
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so far no redbacks after welding in patchs in floor pan. yes I think redback is WA and it tastes awful!!
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/09 14:11:22
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I've had a huntsmann run across the dash to the drivers side a-pillar while I was driving it! For some reason I've always had spider problems with my car, fortunately no red backs.
I have however a red back crawel into my hauler bag with all of radio control car gear in it. I'm very thankfully I saw it go in there.
Just treat everything as though it will kill you and you'll be fine [:x)]
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/09 16:11:54
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ive had a medium sized huntsman run across the outside of my motorbike helmet visor. then once it was gone i had no idea where it went...
another time i walked into the bank and halfway through the transaction i got a funny look and "theres a spider on you". hunstman had decided it didn't like the bike and prefered my jacket instead [88]
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/09 17:31:03
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We had better warn nikmag about funnelweb spiders as well.they are only poisonous to any thing without a tail....Humans.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/09 18:17:49
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this will make him feel better  makes the drop bears look tame http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/Australia-too-dangerous-say-internet-blogs/story-e6frfq80-1225982207965 http://www.news.com.au/travel/galleries/gallery-e6frflw0-1111120765790?page=1
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/09 21:40:25
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Today I decided to clean the garage and I started moving car parts around etc and I lifyed a bag up with hoses and clamps and bam.. about 3 redbacks with arses as big as a 10cent piece ran out and then a black fat arse hairy mofo jumped out... so I emptied a can of spray on them and turned them white.. so I scouted around a bit more and found a small scorpian in a web.. that's right a scorpian.. so I drove down the shop and bought a 3 pack of spray bombs and put 2 in the double garage and just made sure EVERYTHING was dead.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/10 19:45:10
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Going off on a slightly different tangent, a couple of friends of mine have had their pet dogs bitten by Eastern Brown Snakes in thier backyard. Not soemthing you want to find in your car of garage aswell. Seeing as they are the second most venomous snake in the world. heres a pic of the latest one 
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/11 06:19:34
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I'm not even bothered about the scorpions, snakes, and poisonous spiders, we have our own nasty creepy crawlies here in ireland, we call them politicians. the only thing stopping me from being there is the very confusing visa application. We are doing it ourselves to save enough dollars to buy an ol skool ford as a daily when we get there.
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RE: New Owners of my escort
2011/01/11 07:36:29
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I'm not even bothered about the scorpions, snakes, and poisonous spiders, we have our own nasty creepy crawlies here in ireland, we call them politicians. the only thing stopping me from being there is the very confusing visa application. We are doing it ourselves to save enough dollars to buy an ol skool ford as a daily when we get there.
Good onya, Nick, that's the way to go. We have ALL the same kinds of creepy crawlies as you have in Ireland, plus a bunch more it seems... This site may be of use to you if you haven't seen it already - www.carsales.com.au A word to the wise - if you want reasonable peace of mind, source your vehicle from the eastern states, (i.e. Qld, NSW, Vic) as they have roadworthy in those states, which is similar to MOT. We don't have r/w in South Australia, so buying an old bomb here can be more, erm, dubious...  Unless of course, you're driving up to Wolf Creek, in which case you won't have to worry... you'll just have to watch the movie 
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